METHYL ETHYL KETONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does methyl ethyl ketone mean? 

• METHYL ETHYL KETONE (noun)
  The noun METHYL ETHYL KETONE has 1 sense:

1. colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid

  Familiarity information: METHYL ETHYL KETONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METHYL ETHYL KETONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

butanone; methyl ethyl ketone

Hypernyms ("methyl ethyl ketone" is a kind of...):

ketone (any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals)